Exhibition catalog. "This publication was organized on the occasion of the exhibition The shadows took shape at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York...The shadows took shape was organized by Naima J. Keith, assistant curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Zoé Whitley, independent curator, November 14, 2013-March 9, 2014"--Colophon. Contributions by: Tegan Bristow, Samuel R. Delany, Kodwo Eshun, Thelma Golden, Paul D. Miller, Alondra Nelson, Peter Shapiro. Artists' curricula vitae included.
Contents:
Curators' note. The place is space : Afrofuturism's transnational geographies -- Artist entries -- Out of the shadows, into the stars -- Plexus nexus : Samuel R. Delany's pataphysics -- The remanipulator versus syntactical virus -- We want the funk : what is Afrofuturism to Africa? -- The necessity of tomorrow(s) -- Stealing one's own corpse : Afrofuturism as a speculative heresy -- Curators' note.
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